Cores & Seasonals
Like the person you always see at the bar, you can count on these to be always be around. Unlike the person you always see at the bar, there's nothing "regular" about them.
The Whale
Brown Ale
5.9% ABV
A Brown Ale like none other. Awarded Best Beer in New York State at the TAP NY Beer festival, The Whale is a masterpiece with a depth of flavor rivaled only by its drinkability. While others search for whalez, bro; you can land The Whale anytime of the year.
Tasting Notes
Malt forward beer with layers of roasty and toast. This beer leads with a roasty and toasty malt profile, with notes of chocolate and coffee in a drinkable medium body.
Beer Stats
Hops: Northern Brewer
Malts: Fawcett Brown, Fawcett Chocolate, Fawcett Pale Chocolate, Vienna
That IPA
Session IPA
4.9% ABV
Light and extremely drinkable, one may even say, “sessionable.” That Session IPA is the beer you reach for when you want to have more than one. Unlike some IPAs That Session IPA won’t wreck your pallat so you can keep on enjoyin’. Don’t just have some IPA.
Tasting Notes
A hopbursting fruit and citrus forward hop profile melds with a light and drinkable malt bill providing an IPA experience you will want again and again.
Beer Stats
Hops: Simcoe, Mosaic, Zythos
Malts: Canadian Two Row, Honey Malt, Superior Pale
Let’s Go Pils
American Pilsner
4.2% ABV
Brewed with pilsner malt, flaked corn and rice, this refreshing lager is super light in body; crisp with a subtle dank/citrus hop aroma. Perfect for every day of the week, especially Sundays.
Beer Stats
Fermentation: Lager yeast, three varieties of hops, pilsner malt, flaked corn and rice
Color: Straw yellow
Nose: Grain, bready
Bitterness: Low
Mouthfeel: Moderate carbonation
Body: Smooth, medium-light body
Pair It With
Chicken wings, pizza, itself
Frank
American Pale Ale
4.6% ABV
Frank is the first beer we have ever made. Designed to be Buffalo’s craft beer, Frank is a dependable American Pale Ale. The malt and hops work together like the city of good neighbors. Drink with friends and family for any occasion.
Tasting Notes
Frank has a light, crisp, and drinkable malt profile. The hops contribute pine, grass, and citrus making a refreshing, highly drinkable pale ale.
Beer Stats
Hops: Zeus, Centennial, Zythos
Malts: Niagara Pilsner Malt, Château Cara Blond, Abbey Malt, Best Pils
Bang A ‘Uey
New England IPA
8.4% ABV
Brewed with Conan yeast, heaps of oats and Mosaic and Hallertau Blanc hops, Bang A 'Uey is our wicked good New England Style IPA. Hey Ryan, bang a 'uey back to CBW!
Tasting Notes
A bright aroma of papaya, passion fruit and subtle notes of grape. The full, smooth mouthfeel wraps your tongue in a blanket of soft fruit flavors with a finish reminiscent of resinous pine.
Pair It With
Lobster rolls, probably.
Pun Intended
Sour - Gose
4.4% ABV
Pun Intended is kettle soured using Lactobacillus and finished with sachrymyccycycycys. Not just a dad joke, Pun Intended is soft and tart; a refreshing seasonal sour beer that “gose” great with every summer party!
Tasting Notes
A body that is super light and efforvescent brings a citrus like tartness to the forfront. A touch of sea salt and corriander round out
Beer Stats
Hops: Northern Brewer
Malts and such: Best Pils, CMC Wheat, MFB Vienna, Sea Salt, Coriander
Rutherford B. Haze
Belgian-Style Pale Wheat Ale
5.1% ABV
Availability: Seasonal, April through September
Our “non-winter” seasonal RBH boasts a sunny and tasty dispostion. Not too aggressive, and not too clear, “The Haze” puts you right in the warm months regardless of the season, especially when it is not winter. Tasting Notes: A Belgian Wheat beer, Rutherford B. Haze pours a hazy gold with a fine white head. Trappist yeast from Westmalle, wheat, and slovenian hops create a lighter, refreshing beer.
Tasting Notes
A Belgian Wheat beer, Rutherford B. Haze pours a hazy gold with a fine white head. Trappist yeast from Westmalle, wheat, and slovenian hops create a lighter, refreshing beer.
Alpaca Porter
Porter
6.3% ABV
Availability: Seasonal, September - April
Originally brewed exclusively at our Satellite Brewery at Hydraulic Hearth. Alpaca Porter is our non-summer seasonal beer. This porter is as dependable as an Alpaca's footing in the slopes of parking lot snow mounds in the depths of Buffalo Winter.
Tasting Notes
Roasty notes predominate, backed up with a sweeter malt profile. The hop bitterness helps to express the chocolate notes in the beer. A solid medium body mouth feel ties it all together.
Beer Stats
Hops: Columbus
Malts: Canadian Two Row, Munich Malt, Chocolate Malt,
IPA Rotational
Our ever rotating series of India Pale Ales available at select times throughout the year. Here you'l find the haziest of hazy to the clearest of the clear, from coast to coast, far and near. We couldn't help it...
Singularity IPA: Chinook
Single Hop IPA
7.2%
Singularity is an IPA series dedicated to exploring the intricacies of the hop. Each batch is made with the same grain and yeast recipe, but focuses on a single hop that changes with every brew. This time around, Singularity features the Chinook hop. A distinct hop that’s often used for IPAs, Chinook has medium intensity spice and pine characteristics, with subtle notes of grapefruit.
Tasting Notes
This time around, Singularity features the Chinook hop. A distinct hop that’s often used for IPAs, Chinook has medium intensity spice and pine characteristics, with subtle notes of grapefruit.
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Thick & Sticky
Double IPA
8.7% ABV
We know how you like your IPAs. Juicy, resinous and laden with the dankest hops; Citra & El Dorado. We brew this beer for the vipers, the left-handed smokers and the space cowboys. Pass one to a friend.
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Interrobang
IPA - American
7.2% ABV
Originally our Mosaic Singularity, Interrobang is the result of further refining and elevating that single hop beer. No longer relegated to being available once in a while Interrobang is our year round IPA.
Tasting Notes
A well rounded IPA with Mosaic and Amarillo hops. Aromas and flavors of bright citrus, dank pine, juicy peach come together in a mildly bitterness complimented by a well rounded malt profile.
Beer Stats
Hops: Mosaic, Amarillo, Columbus
Malts: CMC Premium Two Row, CMC Superior Pale
Imperials
These beers are available at different times throughout the year based on seasonality.
Pantomime Horse
Adambeir
9.7% ABV
Availability: Once Yearly - February
A once extinct style of beer that was thought to have been made as a gift for a royal German wedding, we have based our interpretation on the 16th century notes of the brewer. Given that no one living has ever tasted a truly historic example, P.Hose mimics the notes as closely as possible, though we leave the unintentional souring out. 2018 World Beer Cup Bronze medal winner for Historical Beer Style
Tasting Notes
Beginning with a touch of smoke, redolent of rich and sweet malts followed by a stiff bitterness of both the malts and the traditional German hops, the high gravity of this beer gives a mellow finish.
The Snow
Imperial Stout
9.2% ABV
Availability: Once Yearly - December
The Snow is our seasonal imperial stout. Loosed upon the public in December, and dark as the winter night, The Snow is a potent force. High in ABV, The Snow is a perfect winter warmer.
Tasting Notes
Loaded with deeply roasted malts for dark chocolate, molasses, caramel, and balanced out by a moderate hop and malt bitterness.
Heatrays
Barleywine
10.1% ABV
Availability - Once Yearly - October
Ah, barleywine. Some argue that barleywine is the highest form of beer. They usually start this argument after their second glass of barleywine. Heatrays is an English style barleywine that is perfect for the cooling weather. Malty and boozy Heatrays isn’t a pounder, it is best enjoyed with respect for its gravitas.
Tasting Notes
Forenotes of Caramel, candied sugar, toasted marshmallow, and ripe prunes and plumes with hop characters of spice and a touch of earthiness ending in a warming finish.
Beer Stats
Hops: Columbus, Eldorado, Simcoe, Citra
Malts: Marris Otter, Carablond, CMC Two Row
Specialties
A rotating selection of specialty and experimental beer available throughout the year.
No Goal
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
5.8% ABV
Brewed with grapefruit and (Brett) Hüll Melon hops, bright and summery with flavors of Ruby Red Grapefruit up front and a touch of bitterness at the end.
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Spruce Vilanch
Double IPA with Spruce Tips
8.0% ABV
Spruce Vilanch is an ode to a sprucey guy. This Double IPA is pleasantly hopped with Columbus and Chinook for a firm bitterness and then conditioned on real spruce tips.
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Excellent Rectangle
Gose with Cranberry & Orange
7.3% ABV
Head brewer Robert brewed all the ingredients into this rectangle. The flavors just play one right after the other! This is an excellent Gose. Brewed with pilsen malt, wheat, salt, fresh cranberries and oranges.
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Strawberry Vanilla Milkshake IPA
New England IPA
5.5% ABV
Strawberry Vanilla Milkshake IPA is back! Brewed with lactose, vanilla beans, Huell Melon hops and 10 pounds of strawberries per barrel. Low bitterness and super drinkability make this a crowd favorite.
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Singularity Series
A Running Series of Single Hop IPA’s
The same grain bill is used in every iteration so you can fully enjoy the complexities and flavor notes of each individual hop. Singularity is a great way to enjoy a beer while learning the intricacies of a single hop varietal.
The malt base that is the same in every batch, biscuity, light bodied, and meant to showcase the characteristics of the specific hop profile and though hop characteristics will vary with each batch, they are utilized in a manner that will give each beer roughly the same IBUs but that’s where the hop similarities stop.
In our most recent installment, Singularity features the Chinook hop. A distinct hop that’s often used for IPAs, Chinook has medium intensity spice and pine characteristics, with subtle notes of grapefruit.
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